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Why Am I In Your Country?

Why Am I In Your Country?

Written by: Trojan Women Project - Charlotte Eagar and William Stirling
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Trojan Women Project presents the refugees and asylum seekers who have fled danger and come to the UK telling you EXACTLY what they escaped and why they are here. For the last ten years we have been helping migrants and refugees tell their stories to the world. Produced by the Trojan Women Project www.trojanwomenproject.org.


Hosted by Charlotte Eagar, William Stirling and Luna Laurenti.

Made Possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

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Episodes
  • Trojans: Why Am I In Your Country? Hounslow Arts Centre April 2025

    Trojans: Why Am I In Your Country? Hounslow Arts Centre April 2025
    Jun 12 2025
    The audio recording of the extraordinary Trojans: Why Am I In Your Country? production, at Hounslow Arts Centre, which we produced in April 2025, with a cast of Syrian, Palestinian, Ukrainian, Afghan, Iranian, Saudi and other refugees. It was the result of a year long psycho-social support drama and oral heritage project, backed by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. We ran around 40 workshops, over 11 months for a total of 120 refugees and asylum seekers, most of whom were Iranians. The Iranians were a mixture of political refugees from the Women! Life! Freedom! movement and a large number of Christians who had converted INSIDE in Iran, where Christianity is punishable by death: it turns out there seems to be a grassroots wave of Evangelical Christianity sweeping Iran. But if the Religious Police catch you, the punishments are brutal, including death. We then built this new version of the play, with those workshop participants who wanted to go on stage. The play was directed by Luna Laurenti and William Stirling, and adapted from Euripides' Trojan Women by Charlotte Eagar, Luna Laurenti, William Stirling, Amanda Waggot, Olha Shvets, Alina Vinnachuk, Arwa Omaren and the cast, who worked their own stories of exile and loss into the play. Featuring the poetry of Olha Shvets. Produced by Trojan Women Project. copyright 2025/

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    52 mins
  • Easter Special: Mina's story: Episode two - The road to Damascus - or in this case Tehran. A Christian Conversion

    Easter Special: Mina's story: Episode two - The road to Damascus - or in this case Tehran. A Christian Conversion
    Apr 18 2025
    In this episode, Mina, a 30-something Iranian photographer, tells how her disgust at the Iranian Regime - its treatment of women and its manipulation of Islam to control the population - inspired her to look for spiritual salvation elsewhere

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    27 mins
  • New Thinking For a New World: Alan Stoga of the Tallberg Foundation interviews Charlotte Eagar and William Stirling about the Trojan Women Project for the Tallberg's podcast

    New Thinking For a New World: Alan Stoga of the Tallberg Foundation interviews Charlotte Eagar and William Stirling about the Trojan Women Project for the Tallberg's podcast
    Apr 14 2025
    11 years ago the Tallberg Foundation invited Syria: The Trojan Women to Geneva. Over a decade later, we catch up on where the project has gone since and why

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    40 mins
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